NEWS OF THE WEEK.
rilHE British Army resumed its offensive, for the third time in a fortnight, on Thursday morning east of Ypres. All that is known as we write is that the attack was made on a wide front, that the troops had made Satisfactory progress, mod that many prisoners had been taken in the first few hours. Apart from that, the chief operations of the week have been Sir Stanley Maudeht brilliant little victory on the Euphrates, upon which we comment elsewhere, and the enemy's persistent counter-attacks on the Western Front and on the Isonzo. When Sir Douglas Haig had captured the high ground commanding the Menin road on Wednesday week, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy and taking sixteen hundred and fourteen prisoners, including forty-eight officers, he set his men to entrench themselves and hold the con- quered ridges. This they have done with complete success. The enemy delivered no fewer than seven fierce counter-attacks the same day, but could not shake our now line. Four days later they brought up fresh troops, some of them from the Riga front, and tried again. Last Sunday the Germans attacked thrice and on Monday six times, but all that they had to show for their sacrifices was a couple of our advanced poets to the south-east of Polygon Wood, north of the Menin road. The southern part of their main positions east of Yprea is definitely in our hands, and the who'o German line in Weft Flanders is in jeopardy.
